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I have posted a youtube video link below to Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox’s introduction of director Herk Harvey’s 1962 independent gem Carnival of Souls – the only film he ever made. Readers can also read Cox’s intro transcript here. The episode’s original airdate was June 23, 1991 (read here). Not much more I can say… Continue reading Moviedrome Mondays: Carnival of Souls (1962) — cinematiccoffee

This Moviedrome Monday entry is going to be slightly different from the others. In this case, it marked the first time that the series showed two films instead of one. Badlands (1973) Since I could not find a youtube video link to Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox introducing legendary director Terrence Malick’s 1973 lovers-on-the-lam classic Badlands, […]… Continue reading Moviedrome Mondays: Badlands (1973) and The Prowler (1951) — cinematiccoffee

Though I could not find a youtube video link of Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox introducing directors Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s 1970 seminal British cult classic Performance, I did find one of Cox presenting it during (I believe) a one-time Summer programming event on BBC Two entitled Forbidden Weekend back in 1995 (read here). Nevertheless, […]… Continue reading Moviedrome Mondays: Performance (1970) — cinematiccoffee

When predictability is removed from a film, everything that remains is a thriller. There are some names that are associated with it and to name a few, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski and David Lynch are come exceptional thriller directors. Another director that made this genre his own with his trademark visual style and camera work, […]… Continue reading The Masters of Film Industry: David Fincher and his Style of Filmmaking — Film In Detail

This nifty British flick serves as a reminder that Christopher Lee did not star entirely in horror films during the 1970’s though one shouldn’t expect him to play nicely in this Hitchcockian thriller that has our leading man involved in murder and deceit. Directed by Sidney Hayers the film opens with a woman casually strolling […]… Continue reading Diagnosis : Murder (1974) — Mike’s Take On the Movies ………. Rediscovering Cinema’s Past

By: John M Jerva At this rate, I don’t think any new films are going to be released theatrically as more and more titles keep getting more and more delayed. Last week alone, Tenet from director Christopher Nolan and Disney’s live action adaptation of MULAN both moved away from July to August further implementing the […]… Continue reading Paramount Pictures Delays Michael B. Jordan’s WITHOUT REMORSE to February 2021 —

Catching up: Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, I can’t help feeling, was robbed of its shot at becoming a word-of-mouth blockbuster thriller that makes audiences scream happily. (As it is, the film, whose release was stunted by COVID-19 and the closure of movie theaters, still managed to scare up a decent amount via streaming and […]… Continue reading The Invisible Man (2020) — Rob’s Movie Vault

In celebrating Tom Cruise week, it’s about time to look back at 2010’s Knight and Day, the action-comedy most want to forget. via ‘Knight and Day (2010)’: Throwback Review — DC’s Take

As the newly-minted 20th Century Studios logo opened the Jack London adaptation The Call of the Wild, I didn’t have much in the way of expectation for this CGI dog movie. I ended up pleasantly surprised that this celebration of nature, so much of which is ironically artificial, has a genuine heart and a storyteller’s […]… Continue reading The Call of the Wild (2020) Mini-Review — A Voyage through Film

“It is not improbabilities of incident but improbabilities of character that matter.” – Thomas Hardy In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 film Marnie, Tippi Hedren’s title character is a kleptomaniac embezzler/con artist with crippling phobias of thunder, lightning, and the color red. When it comes to the building of a fictional person, that’s a lot. It’s a […]… Continue reading Marnie (1964) Mini-Review: A Hitchcock Skeleton Key — A Voyage through Film